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Howard, you may have misunderstood what is written in post 104.
I'll complete the sentence:
THERE WILL BE NO COMMUNITY REGENERATION IN DOVER OR DISTRICT + from the Port.
And here is a repetition of what I posted on this thread on page 3 (or was it page 4?)
"The proposal from Dover Harbour Board included the establishment of a community trust should the transfer scheme be implemented. As the Minister rejected the transfer scheme, this means that ALL the features associated with the transfer scheme, including the community trust, will not proceed either".
Claro?
That is from DfT.
And whether or no you may wish to discuss what the DfT further wrote on regeneration, I'll type that out too word for word:
"In your letter to the Prime Minister, you also asked about regeneration to the Town of Dover; this is mainly a matter for Dover District Council and perhaps Kent County Council."
The question to the Prime Minister was, in fact, about regeneration coming from the Port.
Sorry Howard, there is no mention of DPPT; and as for DHB, please read the first paragraph in quotation marks, the one with "...ALL the features associated with the transfer scheme, including the community trust, will not proceed either".
So, in conclusion, any financial Community regeneration depends MAINLY on the two mentioned Councils, in particular DDC, but NOTHING to do with the Port.
There is mo regeneration plan for Dover, or District, from the Port.
IF some business, or the Government, decided to invest anything into Dover, as in your post 105, it will have naught to do with Port incomes.
And IF, as you state in post 105, they (NOT the Port) might decide to invest in Dover once the Port issue is solved, then please let me assure you, the Port issue IS solved as far as the Government is concerned, and only DPPT keep banging on that DHB will try - and keep trying - to privatise the Port every 5 years for the next 5,000 years.
In fact, I have asked the DfT to clarify on this aspect, whether it is so, that DHB can go on trying to privatise the Port of Dover. Once I receive the reply, I'll post it. It went by email last Friday night, the reply should come by email.
And finally, and here I mean really finally, IF anyone has to prove the opposite of this statement, it is not me, but DPPT.
They are the ones who have to give us a copy of their alleged and supposed "contacts" with "ministers, lords and civil servants" as of POST 21 December 2012.
They have been asked to do so on this thread, and have declined to.
Hopefully, this thread, as I stated at the beginning, will put an end to the whole fairy-tale of Community regeneration coming into Dover from the Port.
As you can all see, DPPT have posted NOTHING. Post 110 is all they managed to post to prove their supposed "contacts" with the Government and the civil servants.
And should all THIS still not suffice, then I can even copy in a few more lines from the DfT letter, which will explain that MOST DEFINITELY no port revenue of any kind will come to Dover under this Government.
And what DPPT do with their remaining share incomes which are supposed to be distributed to a charity, really does not bother me!